From 0.173, the driver was made software list only. There is an intention to implement aliases, which would restore tv* drivers as such, but this has yet to be done. Shame, otherwise we could have been playing Parasol Stars.

Tourvision games can be run in MAME with the tourvis driver:
Commandline is mame tourvis <software short name>

Or get a MAME version with all drivers built in, and just play them on the PC Engine / TurboGrafx 16 drivers.

Software lists are mostly used for computer/console drivers, but a few arcade drivers, particularly those that are cartridge based also use them. Playchoice-10 and Neo Geo are the main examples of this, and allows for being able to load multiple carts at once, and switch between them, as the original hardware does. The software lists are defined in XML files stored in the hash folder. They simply define system software in a form similar to the standard MAME driver ROM_LOAD macros.

Some games are missing from the database.
Assuming we would like to have an entry for each of them, I suggest to rename them into something more sane like tv_* instead of the older romset name.
If we bother in adding more PC Engine games of course.

Here goes the proposed list of romset changes, by prefixing tv_ with the actual software list romname.
Please notice how older names really doesn't match anymore, causing confusion at submit time.
Few of these games also changed their fullname, I've marked them with an asterisk at the end of the line.

pretty this is why most of these rom sets did not work any longer after the names changed .

I liked the names they where before .. they where quite simple .

Kale wrote:Here goes the proposed list of romset changes, by prefixing tv_ with the actual software list romname.
Please notice how older names really doesn't match anymore, causing confusion at submit time.
Few of these games also changed their fullname, I've marked them with an asterisk at the end of the line.